ストレスや心配、孤独感などで、乳腺癌の悪性度が強まる傾向。 癌と精神状態に関する論文はとても多く出ています。

A new American study suggests that stress, anxiety and isolation can make breast cancer tumours more aggressive, with ethnic minority populations at particular risk. In research presented this week at the American Association for Cancer Research's (AACR) Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities Garth H. Rauscher, Ph.D. of the School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago reported on the mental state of 989 newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. "We found that after diagnosis, black and Hispanic breast cancer patients reported higher levels of stress than whites, and that stress was associated with tumour aggressiveness," he said Garth H. Rauscher. Rauscher and his team asked cancer sufferers to report on their mental state some two or three months after they had been diagnosed with the disease. He said: "Those who reported higher levels of stres...